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Lorin Maazel usually is a very good Strauss conductor, and he’s at his best in these live recordings. He launches Don Juan with considerable gusto,
Considering the all-around excellence of his four DG solo releases, Yundi Li’s concerto debut for the label disappoints. For starters, the engineering conveys a bloated,
If you feel that Franck’s symphony is a decadent, heart-on-sleeve, at times tasteless relic of post-Wagnerian romanticism, then this isn’t the performance for you. It
This is a difficult CD to review. Elina Garanča is a remarkable singer, with a well-trained voice that is comfortable through its entire range; she
Samuel Barber’s songs formed a central part of his output from an early age. They are characterized by natural, unselfconscious lyricism and a highly developed
Dvorák’s Love Songs were drawn from his early composition Cypresses, a set of 18 songs set to the poetry of Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky. The texts are
On the whole, these are very exciting, powerful performances. The Miraculous Mandarin has divided critical opinion, some enjoying the swift tempos and Abbado’s sensitivity to
This isn’t Karl Böhm’s well-known Schubert Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic, but a live version broadcast by (then) East German radio in 1979. It’s similar
The Shostakovich catalogue is currently overburdened with releases marking the composer’s 100th birthday. Even so, there is room for this gorgeously-played, highly-charged rendition of the
It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Pop singer Sting is enormously popular, he’s British, and he writes and sings songs about pain, sadness, and paranoia.
